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Global Health Governance and Sustainability

Evaluate the sustainability of global healthcare governance.

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  • Duration

    2 weeks
  • Weekly study

    8 hours

Is sustainable global healthcare governance possible?

This short course consolidates learning achieved through the previous short courses. It focuses on topics that help students to apply their understanding about globalisation, health and global health to analyses of health care funding mechanisms, and evaluation of their sustainability. Emphasis is on student understanding governance and accountability by the different civil societies and partnerships at international level.

What topics will you cover?

  • Overview of global health problems
  • Categorisation of actors in global health functions
  • Roles of the different global health actors
  • Definitions – governance, global health governance
  • Sustainable global health governance
  • Emerging initiatives in global health
  • Governance issues in global health crisis
  • Diversity & effectiveness in response
  • Conditions for effective & sustainable governance

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Explain the meanings of governance, global health governance and global governance for health
  • Identify the organisations involved in the global health system
  • Critically discuss the key challenges in sustainable governance of global health systems
  • Analyse international level governance and critiquing accountability in a complex non-communicable disease
  • Apply knowledge about globalisation, health and global health to critical analyse the drivers of global change

Who is the course for?

The course is designed for people with or without health sector background but wishing to seek career opportunities or progression in the hierarchy of global health as program managers, researchers, consultants, policy analysts, investors, executives, or service providers.

Please note that the individuals detailed in the ‘Who will you learn with?’ section below, are current staff members and may be subject to change.

Who developed the course?

Coventry University

Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.

  • Established

    1992
  • Location

    Coventry

Learning on FutureLearn

Your learning, your rules

  • Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
  • Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
  • Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores

Join a global classroom

  • Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
  • Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
  • Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others

Map your progress

  • As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
  • Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control

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